| bronzed diabetes | A genetic disease in which the body takes in too much iron from food, this causes excess iron to be deposited in the liver and heart and other organs, eventually leading to organ failure and death. This illness is called bronze diabetes because the kidneys often fail, leading to symptoms similar to those found with diabetes mellitus, and because the deposition of iron into the skin makes the person look like he or she has an all-over tan. It used to be believed that this disease was rare and mainly affected people of Caucasian descent, butin recent years scientists have realised it is more common and affects a wide range of ethnic groups. Some believe that this genetic defect actually helps people (especially women) survive in areas where malnutrition is widespread and iron is scarce in food. Regular venesection may help people suffering from this disease. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| bronzed disease | A genetic disease in which the body takes in too much iron from food, this causes excess iron to be deposited in the liver and heart and other organs, eventually leading to organ failure and death. This illness is called bronze diabetes because the kidneys often fail, leading to symptoms similar to those found with diabetes mellitus, and because the deposition of iron into the skin makes the person look like he or she has an all-over tan. It used to be believed that this disease was rare and mainly affected people of Caucasian descent, butin recent years scientists have realised it is more common and affects a wide range of ethnic groups. Some believe that this genetic defect actually helps people (especially women) survive in areas where malnutrition is widespread and iron is scarce in food. Regular venesection may help people suffering from this disease. (09 Oct 1997) |
| bronzed skin | The dark skin in Addison's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bronzewing | <zoology> An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; so called from its bronze plumage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bronzing | 1. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc, the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. 2. A material for bronzing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bronzite | <chemical> A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family. Origin: Cf. F. Bronzite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brood | 1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. "As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings." (Luke xiii. 34) "A hen followed by a brood of ducks." (Spectator) 2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. "The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood." (Wordsworth) 3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species. "Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans)." (Chapman) 4. <chemical> Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. Origin: OE. Brod, AS. Brod; akin to D. Broed, OHG. Bruot, G. Brut, and also to G. Bruhe broth, MHG. Brueje, and perh. To E. Brawn, breath. Cf. Breed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brood capsules | Small hollow projections from the lining membrane of a hydatid cyst from which the scoleces arise. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brood cell | A cell which, by division, gives rise to two or more daughter cell's. Synonym: brood cell, metrocyte, parent cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brook mint | <botany> See Water mint. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Brooke's disease | Trichoepithelioma. Synonym: keratosis follicularis contagiosa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brooke's tumour | <tumour> Multiple small benign nodules, occurring mostly on the skin of the face, derived from basal cells of hair follicles enclosing small keratin cysts; frequent autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: acanthoma adenoides cysticum, Brooke's tumour, epithelioma adenoides cysticum, hereditary multiple trichoepithelioma. Origin: tricho-+ epithelioma (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brooke, Bryan | <person> British surgeon, *1915. See: Brooke ileostomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brooke, Henry | <person> English dermatologist, 1854-1919. See: Brooke's disease, Brooke's tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brookite | <chemical> A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. Origin: Named from the English mineralogist, H.J.Brooke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |